There's no overstating the importance of this game to Princeton's Ivy League title hopes. A Harvard win means it would have to win only two of its last three games to clinch the NCAA Tournament berth and outright Ivy title. A Princeton win evens the teams in the loss column, and if both teams then win out, it would set up the second playoff between the teams in three seasons.

Monday, Ian Hummer was named Ivy League Player of the Week for the sixth time this season, breaking the previous record shared by Penn's Zack Rosen in 2011-12 and Cornell's Ryan Wittman in 2009-10 of five Ivy Player of the Week awards for an honor that began in 1985. Hummer has been named Ivy Player of the Week eight times in his career, one short of the Ivy League record held by Brown's Earl Hunt from 1999-2003. There are two awards left this season.

Last time Princeton played in Jadwin Gym, it saw a long winning streak snapped, as Yale halted Princeton's 21-game home Ivy League winning streak on Feb. 9. It was Princeton's longest since winning 27 in a row from 1996-99. Now, Princeton is putting its 23-game home winning streak against Harvard on the line.

The last time Harvard came to Jadwin Gym, the Crimson were ranked No. 25 in the nation by the AP and lost 70-62. It was Princeton's first win over an AP-ranked team in Jadwin Gym since 1977 against No. 3 Notre Dame, and its first win over an AP-ranked team anywhere since 1997 against No. 19 Wake Forest.

This weekend, Princeton's seniors will try to close out their home Harvard-Dartmouth weekends with perfect records. The last win for either team in Jadwin came in 2009 for Dartmouth.

Princeton has shot 40 percent or better from the field against 16 straight Division I opponents. The last time Princeton didn't shoot at least 40 percent from the field was on Nov. 28 at Wagner, a 48-42 overtime win for the Seahawks. Princeton is 11-5 over those 16 games.

Princeton is outshooting its opponents from the field on the season .470 to .413, and in conference play, the Tigers are outshooting their foes .518 to .417. The difference is even more pronounced from 3-point range in conference play, where the Tigers are outshooting foes .508 to .310.

Princeton is coming off a weekend when it shot .570 (45-79) from the field and .480 (12-25) from beyond the arc at Columbia and Cornell.

Every member of Princeton's starting five in conference play is shooting two-thirds or better from the free-throw line in Ivy games, and four are above 75 percent. Denton Koon and Hans Brase pace the starting five at 80 percent.

In conference play, 85.9 percent of Princeton's points are coming from the starting five.

Princeton enters the weekend as the
Ivy League leader in scoring defense at 57.0 ppg (13th in Division I), in scoring margin at +7.1, in field goal percentage defense at .413,
in 3-point field goal
percentage defense at .319 and in assists at 14.6 apg. Denton Koon is
the Ivy League leader in field goal percentage at .566, and Will Barrett
is
the Ivy League leader in 3-point field goal percentage at .521.

Through Sunday's games nationally,
Princeton was in the top 10 percent of Division I in scoring defense
(13th, 57.0 ppg allowed), field goal percentage (30th, .470, 3-point field goal percentage (12th, .397).

Princeton is coming off a strong weekend defensively, allowing Columbia and Cornell to shoot just .327 (34-104) from the field and .192 (5-26) from beyond the arc. That came after Dartmouth and Harvard combined to shoot .455 (45-99) from the field and .389 (14-36) from beyond the arc two weekends ago.

Ian Hummer is the only Tiger to have
scored in all 23 games this season, but freshman Hans Brase has the
team's second-longest streak, scoring in the last 18 contests.

The Tigers are 13-2 when they score more than 60 points and 1-7 when they score 60 or fewer.

The Tigers are 10-1 when they shoot 50 percent or better and 4-8 when
they shoot below 50 percent.
The Tigers are 6-0 when they hold opponents below 36 percent shooting and 8-9 when opponents shoot 36 percent or better.

Twelve of Princeton's 14
wins have come by double-digit point margins. Seven of the team's nine losses have
come by seven points or fewer.

Ivy League Player of the Year candidates:

Princeton's Ian Hummer and Harvard's Wesley Saunders appear to be the front-runners for the Ivy League Player of the Year. In their first head-to-head meeting, Hummer had 18 points on 7-of-14 shooting, seven rebounds, two assists, three turnovers, a block and a steal, while Saunders had 10 points on 2-of-9 shooting, one rebound, one assist, two turnovers, no blocks and two steals.

Here is how Hummer and Saunders line up over the course of the season:

Category

Hummer (O'all)

Saunders (O'all)

Hummer (Ivy)

Saunders (Ivy)

PPG

16.1 (2nd Ivy)

16.7 (1st Ivy)

16.9 (2nd Ivy)

17.9 (1st Ivy)

RPG

6.3 (5th)

4.3 (18th)

5.9 (6th)

4.3 (15th)

FG%

.539 (4th)

.558 (2nd)

.590 (4th)

.624 (3rd)

APG

4.3 (2nd)

3.7 (7th)

4.4 (2nd)

4.3 (3rd)

FT%

.692 (9th)

.722 (8th)

.795 (5th)

.689 (NR)

SPG

1.4 (8th)

2.0 (1st)

1.3 (8th)

1.8 (4th)

BPG

0.9 (7th)

0.5 (NR)

0.8 (8th)

0.6 (NR)

MPG

33.4 (8th)

37.2 (3rd)

35.1 (7th)

39.6 (1st)

% of team's pts.

25.2

23.8

25.0

24.8

% of possessions

30.2

25.3

Points/40 min.

19.3

18.0

+/- Average

+9.5

+4.6

Last 3 categories

from statsheet.com

Last time Harvard beat Princeton in Jadwin Gym...

The last time Harvard beat Princeton in Jadwin Gym was Feb. 3, 1989.

• George H.W. Bush was just two weeks into his presidency, and George W. Bush wouldn't become an owner of the Texas Rangers for two more months (source: Wikipedia).

• That week, the top grossing movie at the box office was a Disney flick called Three Fugitives, edging out soon-to-be Best Picture winner Rain Man, (source: the-numbers.com).

• The top song on the Billboard Hot 100 was Two Hearts by Phil Collins (source: Billboard).

• The Dow Jones closed that day at 2,331.25 (source: MeasuringWorth.com), and Monday it closed at 13,784.17.

• Princeton's Ian Hummer was more than 17 months from being born.

• Mitch Henderson was 13 years old.

• Tommy Amaker was in his first season as a graduate assistant coach at Duke.

• The 1989 win over Princeton was one of just four for Harvard in Jadwin, all coming in the 1980s. The others were in 1984, 1985 and 1988.

Princeton has lost its last two games on Mar. 1, in 2003 at Brown and 2008 at Yale, after winning 13 straight on that date.

Princeton has won nine in a row at home on Mar. 1 and is undefeated in Jadwin Gym on that date, at 5-0.

Princeton is 2-0 against Harvard on Mar. 1, winning in Cambridge in 1958 and 1991.

Mar. 2 in Princeton basketball history:

Princeton is 22-9 all-time on Mar. 2.

The Tigers were ranked 21st by the AP on that date in 1991 and defeated Dartmouth in Hanover.

Princeton upset No. 6 Columbia 68-57 in Dillon Gym in Princeton on that date in 1968.

Princeton won its last game on Mar. 2, last year against Yale in Jadwin Gym.

Princeton is 4-3 against Dartmouth on Mar. 2, last meeting Dartmouth on that date in 1991 in Hanover, a Princeton won. The last Dartmouth visit to Jadwin on Mar. 2 was in 1973, another Tiger win.

Against Harvard:

The home team has won the last seven games in the series. The last win in the series for a road team was on Feb. 5, 2010, when Princeton won in Cambridge. Current Houston Rocket Jeremy Lin led Harvard with a game-high 19 points in a 56-53 Tiger win.

The home-team streak counts the 2011 Ivy playoff game, where Princeton wore the white jerseys. If Princeton wins out and Harvard wins out beginning Saturday, Harvard would, as of now, be the designated home team in a neutral-site playoff by virtue of a win over third-place Yale, the other team that beat Princeton.

Harvard returns only two players who played in that 2011 playoff game, Laurent Rivard and Christian Webster. Princeton returns five players who played in that game, including Brendan Connolly, Will Barrett, T.J. Bray, Ian Hummer and Mack Darrow.

Harvard has increased its point total in the last few meetings against Princeton while holding the Tigers' point total lower. The Crimson scored 62 and 67 in last year's games and 69 two weeks ago, while Princeton scored 70 and 64 last year and 57 earlier this month.

Harvard has outshot Princeton from the field in back-to-back games, .490-.463 in the second meeting last year and .479-.400 in the first meeting this year.

Princeton and Harvard are 3-3 against each other over the last three seasons.

Neither team has shot below .400 in the series since the first meeting of 2011, when Princeton won despite shooting .396 to Harvard's .438. That's a streak of five games of both shooting at least .400.

In scoring 57 points in the season's first meeting, Princeton became the first team in the series to come up short of scoring 60 points in any of the last six meetings. Twice, teams have reached 70 points, including Princeton in Jadwin last season and Harvard in Lavietes in 2011.

Harvard has outshot Princeton from the field in each of the last three games at Harvard, while Princeton has outshot Harvard from the field in two of the last three games in Princeton.

Princeton and Harvard have been selected first and second in some order in each of the last three Ivy League official preseason polls.

If Princeton can bounce back against Harvard and win the rematch, it would be the second time in three seasons that the Tigers defeated the Crimson after losing to Harvard not long before. In 2011, Princeton lost 79-67 at Harvard on Mar. 5. Just one week later, on Mar. 12, Princeton beat Harvard in the playoff at Yale, 63-62.

In the season's first meeting between the teams on Feb. 16 at Harvard, the Crimson won by outshooting Princeton .479 to .400 from the field and .389 to .364 from beyond the arc. Harvard also outrebounded Princeton 30-27.

The 12-point loss at Harvard on Feb. 16 was only Princeton's second loss by double digits this season and first since losing by 20 at then-No. 6 Syracuse back on Nov. 21.

Against Dartmouth:

The current Tiger seniors are trying to make Dartmouth join Columbia as teams against which the Princeton Class of 2013 has never lost. The last class to go 8-0 against the Big Green was the Class of 2000.

Princeton has won seven in a row over Dartmouth, and by an average of 19.3 points. The largest Princeton win in the stretch was 28 in Jadwin Gym on Mar. 5, 2010 (71-43), and the closest was 12 on Feb. 10, 2012 in Jadwin (59-47).

Dartmouth's last win in the series was a significant one, a 66-63 victory that spoiled the Carril Court dedication on Feb. 21, 2009. Soon-to-be Ivy League Player of the Year Alex Barnett led Dartmouth with a game-high 22 points as Dartmouth rallied from as much as a 13-point Princeton first-half lead.

Princeton succeeded against Dartmouth in Hanover on Feb. 15 by outshooting the Big Green .563 to .431 from the field and .571 to .389 from beyond the arc. Princeton also outrebounded Dartmouth 35-21, its largest rebounding margin against a Division I opponent since outboarding Rider by 16 on Dec. 20.

Milestones:

Based on his scoring average, Ian Hummer is likely to pass Kit Mueller '91
(1,546) and
former teammate Douglas Davis '12 (1,550) against Harvard to become the second-leading scorer in Princeton history. The record holder is the uncatchable
Bill Bradley '65 (2,503), a teammate of Hummer's father Ed '67.

Hummer has already achieved second
place on the Princeton career list of field goals made, at 600. Bradley
holds the program record at 856. Hummer is sixth in field goals
attempted, at 1,165.

Hummer has 692 career rebounds, good for sixth since the stat began
being kept in 1954-55. In fifth place is Chris Thomforde '69 with 709.

Hummer's 320 career free throws are eighth in program history, and his 488 FTs attempted are sixth.

Since the stat began being kept
in the 1974-75 season, Hummer ranks sixth in the program in career
assists, with 293. He recently passed former
head coach Sydney Johnson '97 (280), and just ahead of him are former teammate Marcus Schroeder
'10 (295) and current head coach Mitch Henderson '98 (304).
Hummer's 106 blocks are fourth on the program list since the stat began
being kept for the 1974-75 season. Next up is former teammate Kareem Maddox '11 at 108.

Mitch Henderson is in 11th place on the Princeton coaching wins list with 34 victories. J. Hill Zahn (1921-23) is in 10th place with 36 wins. Henderson has a chance to be in ninth place by season's end, as Joe Scott '87 (2004-07) is in ninth place with 38 wins. Henderson's predecessor and former teammate Sydney Johnson '97 (2007-11) is in eighth place with 66 wins.

Entering the Season:

Princeton
was picked first in the Ivy League preseason poll, getting 16 of 17
first-place votes out of the pool of two media members from each of the
eight Ivy markets and one national writer.

Princeton is looking for double-digit Ivy League wins in four straight years for the first time since 2004.

On the program:

Princeton leads the Ivy League with 26 Ivy championships (56 seasons)
and 24 NCAA Tournament appearances (all since 1952).
Mitch
Henderson '98, the team's Franklin C. Cappon-Edward G. Green '40 head
coach, is the 29th man to hold the job and the fourth consecutive
alumnus to do so (John Thompson III '88, Joe Scott '87, Sydney Johnson
'97).
Henderson,
who played in three NCAA Tournaments for Princeton, spent 11 years at
Northwestern under one of his former coaches at Princeton, Bill Carmody,
as an assistant coach.
Princeton
is tied for second with Kansas, and behind only North Carolina, in alumni as active Division I head
coaches. Eight Tar Heels are roaming the sidelines, while six Jayhawks and these six Tigers are
doing so: Thompson III '88 (Georgetown), Scott '87 (Denver), Johnson
'97 (Fairfield), Henderson '98 (Princeton), Chris Mooney '94 (Richmond)
and Craig Robinson '83 (Oregon State).

On Harvard: The Crimson are looking for their third straight Ivy League title, gaining a share in 2011 and the outright title in 2012 ... Harvard is the Ivy League leader on the season overall in scoring (70.2 ppg), field goal percentage (.488, ninth in Division I), 3-point field goal percentage (.401, seventh in Division I), blocks (4.5/gm) and steals (7.6/gm) ... Wesley Saunders is the Ivy leader in scoring at 16.7 ppg and steals at 2.0 spg ... Siyani Chambers is the Ivy assist leader at 5.9 apg ... Laurent Rivard is the Ivy leader in 3-pointers per game at 2.7 ... Harvard is 6-0 when scoring 38 points or more by halftime ... Harvard is 5-0 when scoring at least 79 points and 11-1 when scoring at least 70 points ... Harvard is 9-0 this season when shooting at least .522 from the field but just 2-4 when shooting below 43 percent ... Harvard is 2-5 when allowing 67 points or more ... Steve Moundou-Missi has heated up in the 2013 portion of the schedule, scoring double digits in seven of the team's last 11 games after doing so only once in the first 13 games ... Kenyatta Smith had a huge weekend against Princeton and Penn, averaging 17.0 ppg, but he averaged just 6.0 ppg last weekend ... eight Crimson have played in at least 21 of the team's 24 games, but just six have played in all 24 contests ... 10 Crimson have started a game this season, but only Chambers and Saunders have started all 24.

On Dartmouth: At 2-8, the Big Green have already won more Ivy games this year than they did in any of the last three seasons, finishing 1-13 in the Ivy in 2010, 2011 and 2012 ... Dartmouth has the chance to finish out of the cellar in the league, standing one game behind Columbia with four games to play ... Dartmouth is eighth in the league in scoring at 60.3 ppg, in scoring margin at -6.0 ppg, in field goal percentage at .396, in blocks at 2.4 bpg and in assists at 10.4 apg, in assist:turnover ratio at 0.8.
Individual Notes

3 • Clay Wilson • G • 6-3 • So.
Has four double-digit scoring games this season, most recently with 12
against Drexel on Dec. 8 ... 82 of 97 field goal tries overall have come
from outside
the arc ... 10 shots taken
against TCNJ were his most since taking 10 against Northeastern on Nov.
13 ... went 2 of 9 overall and 1 of 8 from 3-point range
last season in 11
total games as a freshman ... averaged 27.8 points per
game as
a senior in high school, earning statewide 3A player of the year honors
in Oklahoma.
4 • Denton Koon • F • 6-8 • So.
With 23 points at Columbia last weekend, has reset career best in scoring four times in a little more than two months ... has scored double figures in 13 of the last 17 games after
not doing so in any of the first six ...
shooting .625 from the field in Ivy play, including .667 from beyond the arc ... has started
the last 19 games for the first starts of his career
... shot
.583 (21-36) from the stripe last year, is shooting .794 (50-63) this
year
... only freshman to play in all 32 games last season ... had
six double-digit scoring games last season.
5 • T.J. Bray • G • 6-5 • Jr.
Earned Ivy League Player of the Week honors Jan. 14 after scoring a
career-high 23 points against Penn, his first career Ivy Player of the
Week award ... has had an assist in 55 straight games ... during Princeton's 11-of-14 winning run, has an
assist:turnover ratio of 53:18 ... in his second
season as Princeton's starting point
guard ... career-high eight assists Dec. 22 against Bucknell,
most for any Princeton player in 10 years ... has scored in 22 of 23
games this season, including eight double-digit scoring games ... did
not see game action on the Spain trip due to injury ... grabbed as many as eight rebounds in a game on four occasions last
season ... had three games last season with as many as seven assists.
11 • Brian Fabrizius (fah-BREE-zee-us) • F • 6-11 • So.
Made season debut late in win at Lafayette on Nov. 24 ... saw limited
action last season, playing in six games ... hit one of the
two shots he tried last season, a 3-pointer at Dartmouth ... had a
postgraduate year at Kimball Union Academy in New Hampshire after
spending high school at Hersey High in Arlington Heights, Ill.
12 • Ameer Elbuluk (el-BUE-look) • G • 5-9 • Sr.
Made season debut late in win at Lafayette on Nov. 24, made home debut Dec. 20 against Rider ... first year on
the varsity squad after competing as a junior varsity player.
13 • Mike Washington Jr. • G • 6-3 • Fr.
Made season debut late in win at Lafayette on Nov. 24, made home debut Dec. 20 against Rider ... averaged 17.1
points per game for his career while scoring 1,526 points
at Oak Harbor High outside Seattle ... lettered three years as a
football receiver ... father was his coach in high school.
21 • Mack Darrow (DAIR-oh) • F • 6-9 • Sr.
Has played double-digit minutes in 19 of 23 games this season and has a 3-pointer in 14 of the last 19 games ...
has a 25:11 assist:turnover ratio
... has one double-digit scoring game this season, putting in 10 points
in place of an injured Will Barrett on Dec. 22 against Bucknell ...
played
in all 32 games last season, including a stretch of 16 games in which
he started ... had eight double-digit scoring games last season ... had
four games
last season with as many as five assists, including a six-assist game at
Evansville.
22 • Chris Clement (CLEM-ent) • G • 6-2 • Jr.
Had a breakout weekend at Columbia and Cornell last weekend, scoring six points against the Lions and seven against the Big Red after scoring no more than five points in any game in his career ... from Nov. 13-24, scored in four straight games for the first time in his
career ... six
assists vs. TCNJ more than doubled previous career total (five) ... saw
limited action over his first two seasons while playing behind
Douglas Davis '12 before getting starts in the first four games this
season ... scored in two games last season, making a 3-pointer against
West Alabama and a field goal against Brown.
24 • Will Barrett • F • 6-10 • Jr.
Has scored in double digits in 13 of 22
games played this season ... Ivy League leader in 3-point field goal percentage (37-71, .521), but needs 2.5 3s made per game to qualify for the NCAA leader list ... missed the Bucknell game due to an injury suffered two days
earlier against Rider ... made
two starts as a sophomore in 2010-11 and four more starts in his
abbreviated season last year ... played 28-38 minutes in each game
during the Spain trip, getting as many as 16 points and 13 rebounds.
25
• Isaac Serwanga • G • 6-3 • Sr.
Made season debut late in win at Lafayette on Nov. 24, made home debut
on Dec. 20 against Rider ... joined the varsity team this season, had
competed with the junior
varsity ... has also earned letters at Princeton in football (receiver)
and track and field (jumper).
30 • Hans Brase (BRACE) • F • 6-8 • Fr.
Has scored in 18 straight games ... had the first double-double for any Tiger this season with 11 points and
15 boards Jan. 27 against TCNJ ... 15 boards tied the most for
any Tiger since Mason Rocca '00 had 18 against Georgetown in 1999 ...all six double-digit scoring games this season have come in the last 14 contests ... made first career start against Rider on Dec. 20 to become the first Princeton
freshman to start a game since Feb. 21, 2009 (Douglas Davis) ...
was the
only freshman to play for Princeton in any of the first three
games ... averaged
14 points, nine rebounds per game for the Hill School in Pennsylvania
... played the last two years there after playing at the Gaston Day
School in North Carolina ... both parents are alumni of the University
of Goettingen in Germany.
33 • Edo Lawrence • C • 7-1 • Fr.
Made season debut late in win at Lafayette on Nov. 24 ... first name is
Edward, nickname rhymes with "meadow" ... likely the tallest player in
program history at 7-foot-1 ... came to the U.S. in 2010 and prepped at
the Canterbury School in Connecticut.
34 • Ian Hummer • F • 6-7 •
Sr.
First-team All-Ivy League 2012, second-team All-Ivy League in 2011 ...
winner of six Ivy League Player of the Week honors this season, the first Princeton player since the award's inception (1985)
to win more than three times in a season ... has five 20-point games this season, most recently with 23 at Cornell on Feb. 23 ... reset career high with 28 points against Lafayette on Nov. 24 and matched it with 28 at Elon on Jan. 5 ... leads the
team in rebounding (6.3 rpg), assists (100/4.3 apg), blocks (20/0.9 bpg) and points (16.1 ppg)
... has started every game the last three seasons
(counting 2012-13) except for senior night in 2011 ... father Ed was a sophomore on the
1965 Final Four team with Bill Bradley '65 and uncle John played six
seasons in the NBA, including his first three seasons in Buffalo for the
Braves.
40 • Bobby Garbade (gar-BAYED) • C • 6-11 • Fr.
Hit first career 3-pointer Feb. 22 at Columbia ... had six blocks against TCNJ on Jan. 27 ... made season debut at Syracuse on Nov. 21 in his home state of New York
... scored for the first time this season against Fordham on Dec. 15
... played in nine games in his rookie season ... went 3 of 5 from the
field
... scored in two games, against The College of New Jersey (four
points) and Brown (two).
44 • Brendan Connolly • C • 6-11 • Jr.
Has played in all 23 games, starting the first nine ... seven points
against Columbia on Feb. 22 were his most against a Division I team since
scoring eight against Drexel on Dec. 8
... has had two
double-digit scoring games this season, both with 11 points at Syracuse
and at Kent State ... nearly
doubled his point total from
2010-11 (98) last season, scoring 181 points ... also nearly tripled his
block
total, going from 11 as a sophomore to 27 as a junior. Tigers from the Line
Player 2012-13 Season/Career
3 Wilson 3-6 (.500)/3-6 (.500)
4 Koon 50-63 (.794)/71-99 (.717)
5 Bray 36-48 (.750)/84-124 (.677)
11 Fabrizius 0-0 (.000)/0-0 (.000)
12 Elbuluk 0-2 (.000)/0-2 (.000)
13 Washington Jr 0-0 (.000)/0-0 (.000)
21 Darrow 7-13 (.538)/92-121 (.760)
22 Clement 11-14 (.786)/15-19 (.789)
24 Barrett 32-43 (.744)/54-75 (.720)
30 Brase 30-42 (.714)/30-42 (.714)
33 Lawrence 0-0 (.000)/0-0 (.000)
34 Hummer 72-104 (.692)/315-481 (.655)
40 Garbade 8-9 (.889)/9-11 (.818)
44 Connolly 21-32 (.656)/79-120 (.658)Individual Season & Career Highs (career highs set last game in bold)